SpaceX, a private space company in the United States, has recently obtained a contract worth US$332 million from NASA to release related components of the lunar outpost with a Falcon Heavy rocket.
It is reported that NASA intends to build a platform similar to the International Space Station (orbiting the Earth) in an orbit around the moon, called the ‘Gateway.’
According to the contract, SpaceX will utilize the Falcon Heavy rocket to launch the portal space station’s propulsion system and living compartment, which are also the foundation of the portal space station.
NASA has developed a plan for astronauts to re-landing on the moon, and the Gateway Space Station will become a transitional facility and outpost to the moon.
The above two parts will be placed in the giant nose cone of the Falcon Heavy. The release time is after May 2024, and the release site is the 39A launch pad of the Kennedy Space Center in the United States.
The Falcon Heavy rocket is currently the largest thrust rocket in commercial operations in the world. It has been launched three times before.
In its first launch in 2018, a Falcon Heavy rocket launched a Tesla (SpaceX brother company) sports car into space. There was a dummy on the sports car. The sports car is currently flying in the solar system.
It is reported that the core of the Falcon Heavy rocket is equipped with 27 ‘Gray-backed Falcon engines’, and two Falcon 9 rockets are bundled on the other sides.
